Reinhard Goering’s biography is rather bizarre: his restlessness
and pathological insecurity illustrate how much the expressionist
writer and unorthodox physician was influenced by the social and
intellectual upheavals between the turn of the century and the rise
to power of Germany’s National Socialists. In spite of the findings
of recent biographical scholarship, our knowledge of Goering’s life
remains somewhat sketchy. It is virtually impossible to trace all
of his movements: throughout his adult life he seems to have moved
at least once a year. Although a collection of Goering’s major
works has been available for quite some time (Prosa, Dramen, Verse, Munich 1961), a considerable
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